DEC to employees: No Powerball for you

First they were hit with news of budget cuts and layoffs. Now, the folks at the Department of Environmental Conservation can’t even dream — their computers have been blocked from the state Lottery Division’s home page.

It’s not yet clear how many other state agencies, if any, might be doing the same, we’re looking into it, and incidentally no one has been on the Lottery’s home page, at least for the past couple of minutes, as they are reporting technical difficulties with their site.

But DEC workers who tried to navigate to the Division of Lottery today being greeted with the following message:

The image is a bit fuzzy, it says:

“Your organization’s internet use policy restricts access to this web page at this time